Dinosaur hunting

[joehxx]

Do you think you could kill a large dinosaur with a modern big game rifle?What calibre?

 

[Old Grump]

Get me a real live breathing dinosaur and we will try out a few things to find out. Unless they are bullet proof why would you think you couldn't?

 

[emcon5]

This shouldn't last long.

 

[Old Grump]

I vote for a 10/22 carbine with a 10x50 fixed power scope and CCI Velocitor 40 gr hollow points. From a safe distance of 30 or 40 feet you could blast the head clean off the poor beast before it even knows you were shooting at it. But I would want my grandma backing me up with her 30-30 just in case that didn't stop it. They might have funny habits like those lizards that drop their tail and it wiggles and his around like crazy while he gets away. Grandma is older than me and she might know better which one to shoot. The headless dinosaur or the flip flopping tail.

 

[Art Eatman]

Read up on dinosaurs. Bigger than elephants, but apparently smaller brains. Simple nervous system.

Kill? Yeah. Survivable, if you're after a large herbivore, probably. Bad odds if it's a large carnivore.